I'm using Porteus 3.13.6, which I'm loading from an USB stick. I am quite happy with it, that's why I haven't change it for so long, but I begin to have problems. Namely, my Firefox version is 24.3.0 and it proves to be too old for accessing many web servers.

Conclusions:
- still does not work ("file format not recognized" and the follow up might be the culprit)
- even if it were to work, it looks to me like upgrading the image in memory, not the ISO on the thumb drive. This is not what I'm looking for, as I won't wait one night every time I need to use a higher version of Firefox.

Donald, thanks for the tip; however, as Ed_P guessed, I don't have update-firefox.

Ed_P, thanks for the tip as well, this seems to be a promissing direction. With the module placed in the right directory, I can try to launch a newer version of FireFox. It fails due to a dependency (it is looking for GTK 3+). Would that be available as a module somewhere? More generally, how do I find modules for Porteus?

As a temporary work around, I tried to install gtk 3 using usm. After another update of "all" overnight, it offered version 3-3.8.2 of the library (3.4 is required, as per Mozilla's page here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/4 ... uirements/). Anyway, it did not finalize the installation, due to an error:

For starters it's not necessary to update USM every time you run it if you have saved the updates from the last run.

Based on your overnight USM runs you might benefit with a script that finds the fastest mirrors. Look here: http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=7000 for •Script to Set the fastest Slackware Mirrors (aka sesm.sh). Click Select All, copy the selected code, create a text file, paste the copied code into the file and save it as sesm.sh. Then run it.

As for your funcpackageGet error, there is a script update that may help with that, but, the script may not work with your version of USM. USM Skirting Sync Issue

For better support you should consider updating Porteus to a more current release. It may be quicker than fighting with all the problems you're experiencing staying with the old one.

Afterwards, Is just a process of:
1.- Unpacking the obsolete module
2.- Unpack the downloaded archive
3.- Replace the usr/lib64/firefox folder in the obsolete extracted module with the firefox folder extracted from downloaded version.
4.- Recreate the new fox module.

I'm afraid that I'm at the end of the rope... Most likely my system is too old to be patched the way it's needed.

I tried to install a new Firefox; it needs GTK3 libraries. I tried to install these, well, there are other dependencies (which I don't remember) which lead to other dependencies...

I tried Opera. Opera allows me to install a .deb or an .rpm. However, I ran again into the dependencies tree.

I tried Seamonkey, Konqueror, Midori, no luck.

I decided then to just put the newest Porteus on an USB. First surprise was that I cannot configure it the way it used to be in the old times But that would be OK as long as I could get to a working solution. However, the second surprise came: I couldn't find any browser whatsoever. Ironically, there is a torrent client

I found wget to be present, so I might have to use another system to find URLs and feed them to this one, but this promises to be a lenghty process.